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iPod Generation GapThe good folks over to the iPodlounge have been struggling to decide just what to call the "new" iPods. By the same token, calling the new iPod the “color iPod” would be short-sighted, because the next iPod will certainly also be a color iPod. What do we do for next year’s model - call it the “second color iPod?” Fifth-generation works much better, as it’s more future proof and better references the iPod’s storied history. The other point is more important. Apple’s still working on new designs, no matter whether people call the new iPod “fifth-generation,” “fourth-and-a-half generation,” or “color iPod.” If you’re upset about the “fifth-generation” name because you think Apple’s resting on its laurels and won’t release something...


iTunes 4.8 ReleasedApple has released version 4.8 of iTunes for Mac and Windows. New features included are the ability to organize video clips within iTunes (but not send them to iPod Photos), settings for synchronizing your contacts and calendar with your iPod (requires OS X 10.4 (Tiger)) on Mac.) and presumably, support for some of the upcoming new international versions of iTunes Music Store. All in all, not much new, but then again there havn't been any new DRM-removal tools that they'll feel obligated to break in the last few weeks. (via iPodlounge)...


Orwellian iPodsThere’s a great iPod parody of the classic Apple “1984” commercial here. "Remember in 1984, when we said we wouldn’t be like 1984?  Yeah. Well, whatever. (thx Carl!) ...


The Oracle of RedmondBill Gates explains why the iPod is just a passing fad during an interview Thursday. “As good as Apple may be, I don’t believe the success of the iPod is sustainable in the long run,” he said in an interview published Thursday in German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “You can make parallels with computers: Apple was very strong in this field before, with its Macintosh and its graphics user interface—like the iPod today—and then lost its position.” There you have it, from the same man who once assured us that computers would never need more than 640K of memory, and that OS/2 was the operating system of the future... (via iPodlounge)...


Apple to License iPod Clones?PBS pseudonymous pundit and longtime industry gadfly "Robert X. Cringely" thinks Apple is due to get out of the iPod business soon, and just license the software to other manufacturers. Apple's own downward price pressure on portable media players gives us another element of the probable iPod strategy that hearkens back to my question of a few weeks ago whether iPod is the razor or the blade. Ultimately, what Apple wants to do is make its money through iTunes, where the profit margins are better in the long term and the system is easily scalable. It was necessary to create the iPod platform to make this happen. But downward price pressures will eventually hurt iPod profit margins and affect Apple's...